String Functions Previous  Top  Next Absolute Database supports the following string functions: Function Description LOWER Converts string to lower case UPPER Converts string to upper case SUBSTRING Extracts substring POS Location of specified substring LENGTH Number of characters in string LTRIM Returns the string with leading space characters removed RTRIM Returns the string with trailing space characters removed TRIM Returns the string with leading and trailing space characters removed LOWER (string_exp) Returns a string equal to that in string_exp with all uppercase characters converted to lowercase. Example: LOWER('TOM') returns tom   UPPER (string_exp) Returns a string equal to that in string_exp with all lowercase characters converted to uppercase. Example: UPPER('tom') returns TOM   SUBSTRING (string_exp, start [, length]) Returns a character string that is derived from string_exp beginning at the character position specified by start for length characters. Example: SUBSTRING("ABCDE", 4, 2) returns DE   POS (substring_exp, string_exp) Returns the position of the first character expression in the second character expression. Example: POSITION('CDE','ABCDEFG') returns 3   LENGTH (string_exp) Returns the number of characters in string_exp. Example: LENGTH('ABCEDFG') returns 7   LTRIM (string_exp) Returns the characters of string_exp, with leading blanks removed. Example: LTRIM(' Tom') returns Tom   RTRIM (string_exp) Returns the characters of string_exp, with trailing blanks removed. Example: RTRIM('Tom ') returns Tom   TRIM (string_exp) Returns the characters of string_exp with leading and trailing space characters removed. Example: TRIM(' Tom ') returns Tom           © 2003 - 2024 ComponentAce  | .net zip component | barcode for .net | delphi zip component | delphi database Dec 21, 2024